[HPFGU-Movie] Harry Potter ditches the glasses and all his clothes

[Karen]

I'm actually glad to see this. He's the perfect age and it might get  
him out of Potterstereotyping for later. My only thing is.....and his  
parents are worried about pictures from a Garden event on the internet?



On Jul 27, 2006, at 8:40 PM, eggplant107 wrote:

> From the Sunday Times
> =====
>
> The Times  	July 28, 2006
>
> Harry Potter ditches the glasses . . . and all his clothes
>
> By Jack Malvern, Arts Reporter
>
> HE found fame wearing wizards' gowns and schoolboy scarves, but Daniel
> Radcliffe has chosen to make his debut on the London stage wearing
> nothing at all.
>
> The 17-year-old actor, who is now a multimillionaire thanks to the
> Harry Potter films, has been cast as the stable boy in Equus, Peter
> Shaffer's controversial drama about a boy's erotic relationship with
> horses.
>
> Peter Thompson, a spokesman for the production, said that Radcliffe
> would appear in the play, scheduled for early 2007 in a West End  
> theatre.
>
> He will play Alan Strang, a psychologically disturbed youth who is
> interviewed by a psychiatrist after he blinds six horses with a metal
> spike.
>
> The role requires the actor to simulate sexual pleasure while riding
> naked on his horse. It is a departure for Radcliffe, whose career has
> been dominated by his part as JK Rowling's teenage wizard. He recently
> finished filming December Boys, in which he plays one of four orphans
> hoping to be adopted.
>
> Richard Griffiths, who plays Harry Potter's curmudgeonly uncle in the
> films, is in talks to take the psychiatrist role. It would be a
> triumphant return to the London stage for the actor, who won a Tony
> award for his lead role in The History Boys.
>
> Last week, the pair were filming Harry Potter and the Order of the
> Phoenix, the fifth in the series.
>
> Shaffer's work caused a sensation when it was first staged at the
> National Theatre in 1973. It transferred to Broadway, where it starred
> Anthony Hopkins, and ran for 1,200 performances, making it one of the
> most successful plays in New York history. It was made into a
> Hollywood film starring Richard Burton in 1977.
>
> The playwright, whose works include Amadeus and The Royal Hunt of the
> Sun, based the story on a real-life incident in which a boy
> inexplicably maimed six horses.
>
> It encompasses sexual awakening, Greek mythology and religion. The
> psychiatrist attempts to explain the boy's actions, but must confront
> his own demons in the process.
>
> The play was the subject of controversy recently after John Owen, a
> drama teacher at Ysdgol Gyfun Rhydfelen in Pontypridd, was accused of
> sexual abuse after staging it as a school play. He committed suicide
> the day before he was due to appear in court.
>
> A subsequent report by the National Assembly for Wales called for a
> ban on Equus in schools.
>
> Radcliffe's agent did not respond to inquiries last night.
>
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